__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN CREDANT Mobile Guardian Shield Vulnerability [US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#821865] June 4, 2007 17:00 GMT Number R-262 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: CREDANT Mobile Guardian Shield fails to properly remove credentials from memory, which may allow an attacker to obtain access to the Windows domain and encrypted drive contents. PLATFORM: CMG Enterprise Edition 5.2.0 SP1 DAMAGE: May allow an attacker to obtain access to the Windows domain and encrypted drive contents. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. May allow an attacker to obtain access to ASSESSMENT: the Windows domain and encrypted drive contents. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-262.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/821865 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2007-2883 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#821865 *****] Vulnerability Note VU#821865 CREDANT Mobile Guardian Shield fails to remove credentials from memory Overview CREDANT Mobile Guardian Shield fails to properly remove credentials from memory, which may allow an attacker to obtain access to the Windows domain and encrypted drive contents. I. Description CREDANT Mobile Guardian (CMG) Shield is a component of Mobile Guardian Enterprise Edition. CMG Shield provides policy-based encryption of specified files. CMG Shield fails to properly clear credentials out of system memory. The default configuration for CMG Shield does not encrypt the Windows pagefile, which means that the credentials may be written to disk. Please see the CREDANT vendor statement below in this vulnerability note for more details. II. Impact An attacker with access to the contents of system memory may be able to retrieve the user's credentials, which can allow access to encrypted files. III. Solution Apply an update This issue is addressed in CMG Enterprise Edition 5.2.1 SP1, which was released on May 1, 2007. Please see the CREDANT support site to obtain the update. Details for this vulnerability are available in the support post titled "Vulnerability in Credant Mobile Guardian Shield for Windows." Systems Affected Vendor Status Date Updated CREDANT Technologies, Inc. Vulnerable 1-Jun-2007 References http://support.credant.com http://secunia.com/advisories/25410/ Credit Thanks to Michael Iacovacci for reporting this vulnerability. This document was written by Will Dormann. Other Information Date Public 05/24/2007 Date First Published 06/01/2007 10:15:53 AM Date Last Updated 06/01/2007 CERT Advisory CVE Name CVE-2007-2883 Metric 0.49 Document Revision 4 [***** End US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#821865 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of US-CERT for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 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